The Thomas Street Garden

The Thomas Street Garden is tucked into a formerly vacant lot in the middle of Seattle’s densely populated, eclectic Broadway neighborhood.  It is one, doubtless the smallest, of the Seattle Park Department’s numerous Community Gardens (P-patches).  I stumbled on it while wandering about the Broadway district on a warm fall afternoon.

The individual plots (for which there is a long waiting list) are tiny, no more than 100 square feet or so.  Instead of rows of corn or beans, the gardeners mostly grow flowers, peppers, and the occasional optimistic tomato plant.

It is an island of calm, lovingly tended, in which the gardeners find both solitude and comradeship in their shared love for the soil and for their growing plants.  It is also an island of calm for the garden’s neighbors who come there, summer and winter, to relax, to read, to leave the hustle and bustle of Broadway behind them for a few minutes.

I am grateful to the gardeners for allowing me to share both their garden and their love for it.

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